Nippon Labs Cat8 Slim Ethernet Cable, Red 26AWG S/FTP, 40Gbps 2000MHz RJ45

Cat8 S/FTP Slim Patch Cable, Red

Red marks the links you do not want touched: uplinks, storage fabric, anything whose loss takes a rack down. In a Cat8 deployment those are usually the highest-value connections in the cabinet, which is exactly why they get their own color.

Cat8 runs at 2GHz and 40Gbps, built for 25GBASE-T and 40GBASE-T switch-to-server links.

Specifications

• Bandwidth: 2000 MHz (2GHz), up to 40Gbps
• Conductor: 4-pair 26AWG stranded pure copper
• Shielding: S/FTP, foil per pair plus overall braid
• Connectors: RJ45 with 50-micron gold-plated contacts
• Wiring: T568B standard
• Certification: TIA/EIA compliant, UL and ETL, RoHS compliant

Backward compatible with Cat7, Cat6a, Cat6 and Cat5e equipment. Available from 0.5 ft. to 10 ft.

Buying more than one

Each listing carries every length from 0.5 ft to 10 ft as a separate option, so a rack refit is one product and several lines on the order rather than a hunt through the catalogue. Pick the shortest length that reaches: slack behind a cabinet is the thing that makes a patch field unreadable six months later.

Also available in

Same cable, same specification. The jacket colour is the only difference. Running two or three colours on one job is the cheapest way to tell circuits apart later: one for uplinks, one for the devices that must not be unplugged, one for everything else.

Black · Blue · Gray · Green · Orange · Purple · Red (this one) · White · Yellow